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    A wide backyard lawn gives Mother's Brewing Company the feel of a cookout that never quite ends. It's a Springfield craft brewery and taproom with a rotating roster of beers, from hazy IPAs to sour wheat ales to hard seltzers, and the lineup changes often enough that regulars still find something new to argue about. The kind of place you bring out-of-towners when you want them to think well of your city, which they generally do.

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    • Sunshine Chugsuckle hazy IPA

      “like the year-round Sunshine Chugsuckle hazy IPA or the Cobra Scare sour wheat ale or the local favorite seasonal Winter Grind”

      417 Magazine
    • Cobra Scare sour wheat ale

      “like the year-round Sunshine Chugsuckle hazy IPA or the Cobra Scare sour wheat ale or the local favorite seasonal Winter Grind”

      417 Magazine
    • Winter Grind

      “like the year-round Sunshine Chugsuckle hazy IPA or the Cobra Scare sour wheat ale or the local favorite seasonal Winter Grind”

      417 Magazine

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